Death Guard Contemptor Dreadnought WIP

Here’s a shot of my latest work in progress I’m just painting for fun and to test rust streaks. Its a Death Guard Contemptor Dreadnought modelled after the marine (Garro I think) on the cover on the Flight of the Eisenstein novel.

I used a few Death Guard transfers to do the XIV etc. The skeleton on his shin I could only fit one and the shoulders have been painted green rather than grey. Its not an exact copy since its a contemptor but I quite like him I opted to keep with the grey from the novel cover rather than the off white that Forgeworld are doing.

I still haven’t decided on the base cover yet but hope to get it done over the next week or so.

The base
Started working on the base and followed a tutorial on Oz Painters forum which is well worth a look for inspiration with many Golden Demon winners frequenting the forum. Anyway the base was quite easy to do with a layer of plasticard put down and sanded. The metal areas are cut offs from etched brass sheets.

The base colour was GW Nurgling Green mixed with a littleP3 Arcane Blue with a highlight of the base + RMS Golden Blonde added in. It was then washed over with some W&N oils and then some Secret Weapon pigments of rust brown and rust orange were mixed with water and washed over, left to dry then rubbed off by hand.